Best of: 'Love Is Blind' host Vanessa Lachey
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa Lachey’s first book, Life from Scratch: Family Traditions That Start with You is rooted in a deep and vulnerable place. Vanessa’s mom left when she was a little girl, depriving her of motherly advice, care and the Filipino food she craved. It took decades, but the actor and TV host finally felt empowered to stop mourning what she’d lost, and start creating her own special traditions for her young family – including a chicken adobo recipe her husband, 98 Degrees singer & Love Is Blind co-host Nick Lachey, loves.
Vanessa and host Rachel Belle discuss how she secured a place in the Guinness Book of World Records (it’s food-related!) and why her family celebrates the holidays with a dish called Wiener-Bun Surprise.
Vanessa loves lasagna, so obviously Rachel had to talk about America’s favorite curmudgeonly, lasagna-loving cartoon cat, and she digs into the etymology of the comforting Italian casserole. We’ll also learn about Lasagna Love, a nonprofit started during the pandemic.
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| 0:00.0 | Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights. |
| 0:05.8 | Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal. |
| 0:23.9 | The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, and we dig into |
| 0:27.7 | the history, culture, and science of those meals with experts from around the world. |
| 0:32.3 | Today on the program, we are revisiting a very fun episode from a couple of years ago with Vanessa Lechay. |
| 0:39.3 | Vanessa has hosted every season of Love is Blind and the Ultimatum with her husband Nick |
| 0:45.2 | Lachay, lead singer of the boy band 98 Degrees, who she met nearly 20 years ago while hosting |
| 0:51.2 | TRL on MTV. Do you remember Total Request Live? When I interviewed Vanessa at the |
| 0:56.4 | end of 2021, she had just released her first book, Life from Scratch. So we're going to talk a little |
| 1:02.8 | bit about that. And if you love lasagna, but you hate Mondays, you are in luck. We're going to talk |
| 1:09.6 | about America's favorite curmudgeonly |
| 1:11.8 | lasagna-loving cartoon cat. And I talk with the founder of Lazzania Love, a nonprofit that started |
| 1:18.7 | during the pandemic. And an announcement. I have a new TV show coming out on April 5th. It's called The Nosh with Rachel Bell, and it's produced by |
| 1:30.3 | Cascade PBS here in Seattle. So if you live locally anywhere in Western Washington or in BC, |
| 1:35.9 | you can watch on Channel 9, Cascade PBS. And if you are anywhere else in the world, you can |
| 1:41.4 | watch at cascade pbs.org. It's a mini four-episode season and there is a new episode every Friday in April. |
| 1:49.7 | So I hope you will tune into The Nosh. |
| 1:51.8 | It was extremely fun to make. |
| 1:53.9 | We get into everything from the sober curious movement to truffle hunting with very cute dogs. |
| 2:00.0 | All right. |
| 2:00.4 | Let's get into the episode with Vanessa Lechay. |
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